With alcohol being prohibited around the apartment complex swimming pool, here I am with my good friend Mehmet enjoying a nice cold and very precious (neither he nor I have many left) mug of “tea” on a hot and sultry late afternoon last Sunday.  🙂

The curfew was supposed to be lifted on Wednesday just gone and was then extended to next Monday, but we’ve this evening learned that it will now be in place until at least May 4th.  If this proves to be so, that’ll be just a few days shy of eight weeks confined to barracks.   Writing of barracks; an outbreak yesterday at a large Navy barracks of 4,000 personnel and family members is part of the reason.

It’s getting tedious now though, with every day the same as the previous one and the limit of our travel being apartment, small business centre a few floors down, tiny shop the floor below that, buying groceries from the market traders coming to the car park every few days, and the swimming pool.  That’s it.  For six weeks gone and still counting.

Alcohol sale has been banned under curfew and is unavailable for home delivery, so those precious final few tins of “tea” need to be stretched out a while longer!

Steve